Lord Rama

śrī rāma stotram (indra kṛtam)

(Indra Kruta Sri Rama Stotram in English (IAST))

From Adhyatma Ramayana

Also known as indra kruta sri rama stotra · bhaje ham sada ramamindivarabham

Ten verses spoken by Indra in the same canto of the Adhyatma Ramayana as the praise of Brahma that also stands in this corpus, and the two are easiest to tell apart by their sound. Indra's is built on a single syllable: I worship Rama always, dark as a blue lotus, whose very name is a forest-fire to the wilderness of becoming, whose form of bliss is contemplated in Bhavani's heart, the cause of becoming and of its ending, resorted to from the first — nearly every stressed word in that verse begins on bha. What it says of him it says twice over each time: the one cause of the ending of the flood of the gods' misery, whose body is of human shape and who is himself without form, the supreme lord and the supreme joy.

|| śrī rāma stotram (indra kṛtam) ||
indra uvāca|
bhaje'haṃ sadā rāmamindīvarābhaṃ
bhavāraṇyadāvānalābhābhidhānam |
bhavānīhṛdā bhāvitānandarūpaṃ
bhavābhāvahetuṃ bhavādiprapannam || 1 ||
surānīkaduḥkhaughanāśaikahetuṃ
narākāradehaṃ nirākāramīḍyam |
pareśaṃ parānandarūpaṃ vareṇyaṃ
hariṃ rāmamīśaṃ bhaje bhāranāśam || 2 ||
prapannākhilānandadohaṃ prapannaṃ
prapannārtiniḥśeṣanāśābhidhānam |
tapoyogayogīśabhāvābhibhāvyaṃ
kapīśādimitraṃ bhaje rāmamitram || 3 ||
sadā bhogabhājāṃ sudūre vibhāntaṃ
sadā yogabhājāmadūre vibhāntam |
cidānandakandaṃ sadā rāghaveśaṃ
videhātmajānandarūpaṃ prapadye || 4 ||
mahāyogamāyāviśeṣānuyukto
vibhāsīśa līlānarākāravṛttiḥ |
tvadānandalīlākathāpūrṇakarṇāḥ
sadānandarūpā bhavantīha loke || 5 ||
ahaṃ mānapānābhimattapramatto
na vedākhileśābhimānābhimānaḥ |
idānīṃ bhavatpādapadmaprasādā-
-ttrilokādhipatyābhimāno vinaṣṭaḥ || 6 ||
sphuradratnakeyūrahārābhirāmaṃ
dharābhārabhūtāsurānīkadāvam |
śaraccandravaktraṃ lasatpadmanetraṃ
durāvārapāraṃ bhaje rāghaveśam || 7 ||
surādhīśanīlābhranīlāṅgakāntiṃ
virādhādirakṣovadhāllokaśāntim |
kirīṭādiśobhaṃ purārātilābhaṃ
bhaje rāmacandraṃ raghūṇāmadhīśam || 8 ||
lasaccandrakoṭiprakāśādipīṭhe
samāsīnamaṅke samādhāya sītām |
sphuraddhemavarṇāṃ taḍitpuñjabhāsāṃ
bhaje rāmacandraṃ nivṛttārtitandram || 9 ||
|| iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe yuddhakāṇḍe trayodaśaḥ sarge indra kṛta śrī rāma stotram sampūrṇam ||

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